Not all entrepreneurs get to take their companies public. And even if they do, not all of them are prepared for what awaits them. I certainly was not prepared when I took my first startup company, Gupta Technologies, public in 1993. But I learned a lot from that early experience and applied the lessons to my next IPO in 1999. Fifteen years after happily running Keynote Systems as a public company, I recently sold it to a private equity company.
Here are five important lessons I learned during my two journeys from tech founder and entrepreneur to public company CEO.
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